{"id":38571,"date":"2013-06-06T02:48:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_belief_blog_melody_moezzi-a_plea_from_an_exhausted_muslim_woman\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T02:48:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:48:18","slug":"cnn_belief_blog_melody_moezzi-a_plea_from_an_exhausted_muslim_woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38571","title":{"rendered":"(CNN Belief Blog) Melody Moezzi&#8211;A plea from an exhausted Muslim woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I wasn\u2019t surprised by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#8217;s recent statement about a \u201cproblem within Islam.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as though I&#8217;ve never heard anything like it before. I hear it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Still, his words \u201d\u201c in response to a recent attack in London that left a British soldier dead \u201d\u201c made me wonder: How might the public have reacted in a different context, had Blair replaced the word \u201cIslam\u201d\u009d with \u201cChristianity\u201d\u009d or \u201cJudaism\u201d\u009d?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m guessing not well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/05\/opinion-a-plea-from-an-exhausted-muslim-woman\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t surprised by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#8217;s recent statement about a \u201cproblem within Islam.\u201d\u009d It&#8217;s not as though I&#8217;ve never heard anything like it before. I hear it all the time. Still, his words \u201d\u201c in response<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38571\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,199,426,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}